332 East 71st Street, Manhattan, NY 10021

332 East 71st Street is a 5-story, 20-unit old law tenement building built in 1925, currently owned by Wally Acevedo. The Upper East Side building has experienced recurring issues with heating and hot water systems, particularly evident in early 2025, when multiple emergency complaints were filed between January and February regarding both apartment-specific and building-wide heat/hot water problems. More recently, in May 2025, there was a plumbing-related water supply issue that HPD was unable to inspect properly.

The building has a history of pest-related concerns, with violations documented in 2019, 2020, and most recently in October 2023, which resulted in violations being issued. Apartment 1B currently has an open violation as of November 2023 for a mouse infestation, along with other safety violations involving smoke and carbon monoxide detectors that were certified as corrected in November 2023. The building's maintenance record shows a pattern of various infrastructure challenges over the years, including a slow water leak complaint in December 2019, and emergency complaints regarding cooking gas in June 2021.

While the building has passed multiple rodent inspections from 2011 through 2024, suggesting compliance with basic pest control requirements, the occurrence of multiple pest-related complaints and violations indicates ongoing challenges in this area. The property has maintained an active bedbug reporting history from 2021 to 2024, with all reports showing zero infested or re-infested units. Notably, there is an open violation from February 2019 regarding means of egress from the yard to street that remains unresolved.